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USS Abraham Lincoln crew heads home after record-breaking deploymentWorld

Sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln are returning to California after nearly 10 months deployed on the aircraft carrier in support of the military effort in Iran. The crew stopped in Thailand last week for rest and recovery.

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'Polarised Brazil': Lula remains a 'strong candidate' despite the challenges of incumbencyPolitics

Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos, director of King’s Brazil Institute at King’s College London, says Brazil’s approaching election can be understood through a split between macroeconomic performance and political confidence. Although headline indicators point to a relatively healthy economy, Lula faces the difficulties of governing while remaining a strong candidate.

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Putin has ‘zero interest’ in ending the war, Ukrainian MP Yasko saysWorld

US envoy Steve Witkoff said weekend discussions between Ukraine and Russia had made progress, raising the possibility of reviving three-way peace talks. Ukrainian MP Lisa Yasko said, “we don’t trust these talks,” and called the US envoys’ flattering of Russian President Vladimir Putin “disgraceful.”

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German Chancellor Merz ‘shocked’ by far-right AfD election winPolitics

Chancellor Friedrich Merz says Germany is undergoing a tectonic shift in party politics after the far-right Alternative for Germany won in Saxony-Anhalt. He said the result shook his conservative CDU to its core and showed the need for a major reckoning. The anti-immigration party has proposed banning rainbow flags in schools and segregating refugee children in classes.

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Nauru formally opens embassy in JerusalemPolitics

Nauru formally brought its embassy in Jerusalem into operation on September 7. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar and Nauru’s Vice President and Foreign Minister Lionel Rouwen Aingimea attended the inauguration. Most foreign embassies in Israel are still located around Tel Aviv.

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Current with Christine Romans – Sept. 7: Cargo Plane Crash and Targeted AttackWorld

At least five people died after an Amazon-branded cargo plane overran the runway at Miami International Airport. An armed man also confronted Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton in what was described as a targeted attack, while the Pentagon denied that Iran had struck a U.S. ship.

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At least 12 killed in Israeli airstrikes on Lebanese villageWorld

Lebanon’s Health Ministry says Israel’s air force conducted two strikes early Monday on a village in southern Lebanon, killing at least 12 people and injuring others, including children.

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Board of Peace touts progress as Palestinians’ situation worsensWorld

Athena Rayburn, executive director of the Association of International Development Agencies, describes daily life in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. In Gaza, more than two million Palestinians are confined to roughly 104 square kilometres while Israeli forces repeatedly bomb the area. Clean water, food, electricity, medicine and sturdy shelter are increasingly difficult to obtain.

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‘We should have learned more from history’: Germans react to AfD winPolitics

The AfD won 43.8% in Saxony-Anhalt’s state election, more than doubling its result from five years ago. The landmark victory brings a far-right party within reach of state power in Germany for the first time since the second world war, but it remains three seats short of a majority in the 83-seat legislature.

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Far-right German party wins state election; what’s next?Politics

The Alternative for Germany has won a historic victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. Preliminary results gave the far-right party 44% of the vote and 39 of the state parliament’s 83 seats, bringing it closer than any far-right party since World War II to holding power in a German state.

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1,000 years on, what does the Bayeux Tapestry look like now?Culture1:24

Marie-Louise Gumuchian gets an early look at the sold-out Bayeux Tapestry exhibition. The 70-metre, 1,000-year-old embroidery, on loan to the British Museum, portrays the brutal reality of battle scenes.

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Thousands attend Bosnian Serb war criminal Mladic’s funeral in Belgrade despite EU warningsWorld

Thousands gathered in Belgrade for the funeral of Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic despite EU warnings. Serbian ministers attended after earlier assurances that no serving officials would be present; his coffin was draped in the national flag and his medals displayed. The EU said glorifying convicted war criminals has “no place” in the bloc or candidate countries.

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German migration organization worried about its futurePolitics

Undra Dressler, head of the State Network of Migrant Organizations in Saxony-Anhalt, said the group was in a somber mood and facing considerable uncertainty after the state elections.

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Germany's Merz says CDU is ‘deeply shocked’ by AfD winPolitics

Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Monday that he would continue pursuing unpopular reforms for Europe’s largest economy after the far-right AfD scored a landslide in a regional election. The party has a strong chance of forming Germany’s first far-right state government since the Nazi era.

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Anti-migrant protest injures officers in Portsmouth, UK police sayWorld

A protest in Portsmouth against small-boat crossings left a small number of officers injured and some vehicles damaged, police said. Hundreds blocked roads after 140 migrants were brought ashore. The government condemned what it called intimidating and thuggish behaviour at the protest.

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How will the far-right AfD’s electoral rise impact Germany?Politics

The far-right Alternative for Germany leads Sunday’s election in Saxony-Anhalt with about 44 percent of the vote, boosted by economic worries and anger over immigration. It is also ahead in national polling. Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has classified the state branch as a confirmed right-wing extremist group, a designation the AfD rejects. Chancellor Friedrich Merz says there will be no cooperation with the party.

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Macklemore hammered over anti-US, anti-Israel concert rantCulture

Podcaster Bethany Mandel discussed rapper Macklemore’s controversial onstage rants against Israel and the United States, along with growing outrage among concertgoers, on “Fox & Friends.”

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More than 135 health workers killed in Lebanon since MarchWorld

Israeli air strikes killed 12 people in southern Lebanon in what was described as the latest breach of a US-brokered ceasefire reached in June. Lebanon’s Health Ministry says ambulance crews have come under attack at least 179 times since March and more than 135 health workers have been killed. Criminal justice and human rights analyst Omar Nashabe comments.

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Hollywood blacklisting: Susan Sarandon says support for Palestine cost her film rolesCulture

The 79-year-old actress Susan Sarandon says her outspoken support for Palestine during the ongoing conflict in Gaza has carried professional consequences, including the loss of film roles. Her comments come as several artists defend actor Mark Ruffalo, who has also faced what they describe as a “smear campaign”.

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Merz ‘deeply shocked’ after major AfD win in Saxony-AnhaltPolitics

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said in Berlin on Monday that he saw a society “longing for disruption” and “fundamental change”, after the AfD secured a major victory in the Saxony-Anhalt state election.

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